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Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems
Author:
Singer, Marilyn
Illustrator:
Masse, Josee
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Class:
811.54
Age: 7-10
Language: English
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LC: PS3569
Grade: 2-5
Print Run: 50000
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ISBN-13: 9780803737693
LCCN: 2012014359
Imprint: Dial Books for Young Readers
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Pub Date: 02/07/2013
Availability: Available
List: $17.99
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
H 10.38",
W 10.31",
D 0.35",
0.95 lbs.
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LC Series:
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Brodart Sources:
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Brodart's Children and Teen Nonfiction Picks
Brodart's For Youth Interest: Popular
Brodart's Insight Catalog: Children
Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles
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Bibliographies:
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Children's Core Collection, 22nd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 23rd ed.
Children's Core Collection, 24th ed.
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Awards:
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Horn Book Guide Titles, Rated 1 - 4
Library Media Connection Starred Reviews
Notable Poetry List (NCTE)
Publishers Weekly Starred Reviews
Teachers' Choices Reading List
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Starred Reviews:
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Publishers Weekly
~Library Media Connection (Retired Journal)
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TIPS Subjects:
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Poems
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BISAC Subjects: |
JUVENILE FICTION / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General
JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic
JUVENILE FICTION / Stories in Verse
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LC Subjects:
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American poetry
Characters and characteristics in literature, Juvenile poetry
Characters in literature, Poetry
Children's poetry, American
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SEARS Subjects: |
Characters and characteristics in literature, Poetry
Children's poetry
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| Annotations |
| Brodart's TOP Juvenile Titles | 02/01/2013 |
| Read these twisted fairy tales every which way you dare. Classic fairy tales like The Little Mermaid and Thumbelina are featured in this follow-up to 'Mirror Mirror,' and reading each poem from the bottom to the top will give you an entirely different view of these classic favorites. 32pp., Color Ill. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 01/07/2013 |
| Ages 6-up. Singer and Masse's companion to Mirror Mirror (a PW Best Book in 2010) is just as inspired as its predecessor. Iconic fairy tale characters speak through poems that can be read backward and forward, resulting in drastically different meanings. Familiar rivals duke it out: "I can't be/ beat./ I've got rabbit feet to/ take me to the finish line," says the overconfident hare. "Take me to the finish line!/ I've got rabbit feet to/ beat./ I can't be/ the smallest bit distracted," maintains the tortoise. Elsewhere, the line "Behold his glorious majesty" conveys both vanity and incredulity in Singer's take on the Emperor's New Clothes. Cobalts, reds, and golds dominate Masse's textured acrylics, contributing suitably regal visuals for Singer's dizzyingly clever wordplay. Agent: Brenda Bowen, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. Illustrator's agent: Lori Nowicki, Painted Words. (Feb.). 32p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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| ~Library Media Connection (Retired Journal) | 08/01/2013 |
| Grades 2-5. This clever collection features Singer's own unique creation of reverso poems, in which she writes two different poems. The first is read down and the second is read in reverse. The only difference is punctuation and capitalization. The reversing of the lines results in two unique, and sometimes opposite meaning, poems. This book is her second collection of reverso poems that are based on classic fairy tales. Masse's brightly-colored acrylic illustrations provide readers with further food for thought as they ponder each poem pair. Singer cleverly weaves two different voices and/or perspectives into her poem pairs. Additional information about each reverso poem and the fairy tale on which it was based is provided. Singer's poetry begs to be read aloud as listeners savor Masse's accompanying illustrations. This is a must-have book for a library's poetry section as well as for any personal collection. Amy Merrill, Reading Specialist and Certified School Librarian, Calvin Coolidge Elementary School, Binghamton, New York. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. 32pg. ABC-CLIO, INC., c2013. |
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| Booklist | 01/01/2013 |
| Grades 2-5. This companion to Mirror Mirror (2010) offers another fairytale-themed collection of free verse poems, each paired with its "reverso," or the poem in reverse. For example, "The Little Mermaid's Choice" begins "For love, / give up your voice. / Don't / think twice," and the accompanying reverso poem concludes with "Think twice! / Don't / give up your voice / for love." The punctuation often changes, as does the formatting, thereby offering up intriguing and inventive takes on each tale. Other reversos give varying perspectives, as in the case of "Ready, Steady, Go!," which presents both the tortoise's and the hare's points of view. Beautifully rendered, richly hued illustrations artfully transition from depicting the first poem's scenario to the second's, and interweave fantastic and realistic details. Though the poems are eloquent and witty, they may be somewhat esoteric for younger kids and will resonate more with those familiar with the classic stories. An appended author's note, however, includes summaries of the tales and further explicates Singer's finely crafted, unique form. An enjoyable collection that may prompt kids to write their own reverso poems. Rosenfeld, Shelle. 32p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2013. |
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| Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books | 02/01/2013 |
| R. Gr. 3-6. With Mirror, Mirror (BCCB 4/10), Singer introduced the cunning poetic “reverso,” a free-verse poem that creates a very different meaning when the order of the lines is reversed. This volume brings fourteen new poems, with an introduction and a valedictory bookending a doz-en folktale-themed verses. Hans Christian Andersen is particularly well represented as the source of nearly half the poems (“Birthday Suit,” for instance neatly captures the disparity of the emperor’s and trickster’s thoughts in “The Emperor’s New Clothes”), and his tales are joined by other classics such as Aesop’s “The Tortoise and the Hare” (“Ready, Steady, Go!”) and “The Three Little Pigs” (“Can’t Blow This House Down”). It’s a form at its best for illuminating contrasting view-points: in the Pied Piper poem, “Follow Follow,” one verse tells of the town’s brushoff of the piper while the other conveys the piper’s chilling vengeance; in “Your Wish Is My Command,” Aladdin and the genie in the lamp have very different ideas of freedom. Each full-page image is divided down the middle to mirror the poems, and the acrylic art is bursting with luminous blues, sunny yellows, and verdant greens. The delicate striations suggest painting on wood, especially in gold-touched details that resemble gilt-enhanced carvings. These are delightful to read and read aloud, and they’re a curricular dream for discussions of poetry, folklore, and point of view. A note about poetic form and a collection of brief notes about the tales are appended. DS. 32p. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIV. OF ILLINOIS, c2013. |
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| Horn Book | 01/01/2013 |
| Primary. "It's not easy," warns Singer in a note about the "reverso," a verse form she created and first used in Mirror Mirror (rev. 3/10); and the first poem ("Fairy Tales") in this companion collection gently alludes to the craft involved, "how hard it was to write." The poems here again subvert traditional tales by offering two points of view on the story: what goes down on the left-hand of the page goes up on the right, with line breaks and punctuation revised for strategic effect. Thus the dilemma of the Little Mermaid: "For love, / give up your voice. / Don't / think twice" advises the first verse, while the second ends with a warning, "Think twice! / Don't / give up your voice / for love." The poems require (and reward) close attention; the twelve referenced tales also include "Puss in Boots," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," with notes on each appended. Once again, the acrylic illustrations mirror the poems' structure. On the left, a princess sleeps on a gentle cloud-leafed bed; on the right, a sensible girl massages her back wrought achy by that pesky pea tucked far below. roger sutton. 32pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2013. |
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| Horn Book Guide | 11/01/2013 |
| 2. K-3. As in Mirror Mirror, poems subvert traditional tales by offering two points of view on a story: what goes down on the left-hand of the page goes up on the right, with line breaks and punctuation revised for strategic effect. The twelve referenced tales include "Puss in Boots," "The Little Mermaid," and "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," and acrylic illustrations mirror the poems' structures. rs. 32pg. THE HORN BOOK, c2013. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 01/15/2013 |
| A companion piece to the acclaimed Mirror, Mirror (2010), this offering presents more delightful "reverso" poems to treasure. As in the original volume, each page spread presents an expertly crafted poem based on a fairy tale coupled with a second poem which is, with only minor changes in capitalization and punctuation, the first poem in reverse. Together, the two poems offer new perspectives and insights into familiar tales and their characters. Take, for example, the poems based on "Thumbelina." The first verse, from the girl's perspective, begins, "Me / marry / a mole? / I am / small, / but / my dreams are / lofty and daring, / not / constant and safe," while the second verse, in the voice of the mole this time, ends with "constant and safe, / not / lofty and daring. / My dreams are / but / small. / I am / a mole. / Marry / me." Other featured tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Tortoise and the Hare," "The Princess and the Pea," "The Three Little Pigs" and more. Masse's bold and brilliant illustrations bring the poems to life, showcasing the different perspectives while maintaining a lovely sense of unity by essentially dividing each painting into two distinct images while incorporating elements that inextricably yoke each image to its counterpart. Read alongside the traditional tales it plays off of or enjoyed on its own, this volume is one to savor. (about reversos, about the tales) (Picture book/poetry. 8-12). 32pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2013. |
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| School Library Journal | 04/01/2013 |
| Gr 3-6--Follow Follow is a companion to Mirror Mirror (Dutton, 2010), Singer's first book of reverso poems in which she asks, "We read most poems down a page. But what if we read them up?" With just a few "changes allowed only in punctuation and capitalization," and reading the poem from bottom up, the adage "there are two sides to every story" is truly manifest. Masse's two-sided illustrations capture the changes in point of view, tone, and color. "No Bigger Than Your Thumb" presents a Thumbelina loath to consider marrying a mole since her dreams are "lofty and daring," far from "a sheltered life underground." She asks from the start, "Me/marry/ a mole?" The mole has the last word: "I am/a mole./Marry/ me." For the poem based on "The Little Mermaid," Masse makes the mermaid's conflict evident by presenting both of her selves, mermaid and young woman, entwined in the center of the page: her long hair is wrapped about the tail of her sea-self. The deep blues, greens, and tangerines dazzle. The poem begins: "For love,/give up your voice./Don't /think twice." And reverses: "Think twice!/Don't/give up your voice/for love." Singer's reversos present lyrical and evocative moments that will surprise and delight children and provide them with opportunities for critical discussion. With their shifts in diction and point of view, the poems and illustrations are ripe for visual and textual literacy exploration and performance. Teresa Pfeifer, The Springfield Renaissance School, Springfield, MA. 32p. SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013. |
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